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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1917
Page
8
Public sale announced for the Carter Miller farm located one mile west of Shelby and seven miles east of Purdin. The event lists Electric Theatre and Paramount Pictures as key names in the sale context with Friday and Saturday participation.
A March 1 auction lists animals including horses mules cows and calves with weights ages and freshening dates. Farm tools hay equipment wagons wire and household items also offered. Terms announced day of sale. Sale starts at 10 o clock.
Insect pests spread human diseases, not just crop damage. A Farmers Week talk by Leonard Haseman at the University of Missouri notes fleas, mosquitoes, and the house fly transmit bubonic plague, malaria, yellow fever, sleeping sickness, and typhoid, with three carrier types: passive, blood-sucking, and intermediate hosts. Early spring sanitation and fly control are urged to prevent outbreaks in Missouri.
The piece promotes winter travel to California for sunshine and outdoor fun, via a Personally Conducted Excursion on the Burlington Route. It highlights daylight routes through Denver, Colorado Springs, the Royal Gorge and Salt Lake City at low cost, urging readers to compare with staying home and to request the booklet by postal. H. B. Johnson of Brookfield visits friends Saturday.
Will Turner of Winigan was here on business Saturday. The brief item notes his local visit and activities during the day.
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